Serving

Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute

From knative·Updated June 18, 2026·View on GitHub·

Knative Serving builds on Kubernetes to support deploying and serving of applications and functions as serverless containers. Serving is easy to get started with and scales to support advanced scenarios. The project is written primarily in Go, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2018. It has gained significant community traction with 6,061 stars and 1,228 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: app, autoscaler, container, developer-productivity, function.

Latest release: knative-v1.22.1— v1.22.1

June 2, 2026View Changelog →

Knative Serving

The Knative Serving project provides middleware primitives that enable:

Rapid deployment of serverless containers
Automatic scaling up and down to zero
Routing and network programming
Point-in-time snapshots of deployed code and configurations

For documentation on using Knative Serving, see the
serving section of the
Knative documentation site.

For documentation on the Knative Serving specification, see the
docs folder of this
repository.

If you are interested in contributing, see CONTRIBUTING.md
and DEVELOPMENT.md. For a list of all help wanted issues
across Knative, take a look at CLOTRIBUTOR.